Dack had men around him whenever he received the ball. Ben didn't and the penalty came from his second run at QPR with the ball. He drew the foul for the penalty expertly. He knew exactly where to place his left foot to get it trapped under the lunging QPR defender.

Both great runs in the Championship ended on Saturday. Brum were 1 up at Derby who upped the tempo 2nd half and blew them away. We of course were 0-0, denied QPR any chance of nicking it then snatched it ourselves at the end. The total lack of any QPR response after the penalty showed they had no attacking thoughts whatsoever. Brum included some notable scalps in their good run but QPR picked off wins against bottom half sides in their run. Memo to Rovers- beat the lower sides and you shoot up the league.

Just watched the highlights- very decent shout for a penalty in the first half for bringing down Bell in the box and ordinarily Graham takes at least one of those two first half chances. What passes for QPR's best chance of the 2nd half as adjudged by the editors is risible. A well deserved win for the Rovers.

The Bowyer squad was significantly better than this one but Mowbray is a proper football manager. Yes play-off slots are there for the taking and automatic promotion is if we have an exceptional January window through concertinaing the three window strategy into one. No reason to assume we would not pick up PL loanee gems again next season; getting Reed signed is going to be a high priority Sparky please. No there is no reason to assume Mowbray would be a nearly man

QPR remarkably disappointing- thankfully. Rovers did the job in the end but the strength in depth means that below energy performers should expect a spot of bench warming. Danny Graham had a stinker- the game would have been transformed had he taken the first half chances. Says a lot that we played at half pace against the form team of the division and could still win. And Brereton is showing decisively when he comes on- a lovely cameo at the Hawthorns last week and an as professional drawing of the penalty foul as you could ever see today.

Wobbly feed to say the least but the win was worth the E6.

Silent movies today, Given the QPR strip it would be better in black and white but with sound.

Ok I am really going into the mixer. Most fans haven't got the first iota of understanding of the club they are supporting as it is run TODAY. Something has happened in the Pune bungalow compound. It might be that finally the penny dropped for Mr and Mrs D in football terms. As sure a thing for getting promotion Neil Warnock was in place as Manager and tantrict gold earrings replaced him with as certainty for getting relegation as possible in Coiley (pass the sick bag). Even Mrs D (who does get abstracts of these pages) recognised an almighty balls up. But of course we are talking family and Balaji might have lead pious Venkat astray just once too often- who knows... What Has happened is that control of Rovers is unambiguously in the hands of Madam. And yes she called in double bean counters 18 months ago and yes I completely misread this as bean counters for sellers and buyers- NO Mrs D cannily had two lots in to look at current values and operations and separately at future plans and her £750K bought her honesty. Both accountants knew the others were reporting and had to play it absolutely straight accordingly. In retrospect this also told us that Mrs D is both wise enough and wealthy enough to ignore sunk costs. Money gone into a third division Rovers is lost- call it loans, share capital, moon dust or whatever- the money is gone and the question is what we do from here. Thankfully the answer for every Rovers fan was take the opportunity to srip the cost base but back Mowbray with a low cost (£5m in transfers) shot at first time promotion. When it looked like that was working in came Waggot, the first CEO or Chairman worthy of the title since Williams/Finn. Now we are running according to a strategy. Looking forward there is a strategy covering THE NEXT THREE WINDOWS- not something you find on FIFA 18 games. This summer we achieved most of the strategic objectives- remember the wailing banshees on 31 July on this message board becoming mostly silenced by 31 August? One of the strategic objectives surrounded the centre forward. Love him to bits but DG is not immortal and is prone to injury. So an amount around £7m was assigned for a centre forward. Yes other forwards were looked at. Yes Brereton was adjudged to be the best fit for our STRATEGIC needs. No that £7m was not going to be spent on a mish mash of centre halves and midfielders.

Catching up on my listening today. Brilliant well done to all concerned. Lenihan has come through some really big injuries for so young a player- huge respect for him increased with that interview. Fabulous player for Rovers and J*B stop your trolling.

Great listen as always. Was ahead of Ben Arthur on every detail but great piece on the play-offs. He spared us the penalty which almost hit the corner flag at Ewood.

My gut feel is there is nothing wrong with Rothwell that cannot be fixed by the right coaching and sports psychiatrist. I think we have a gem in the making.

So is Dack fit today?

I am not defending the logic of it. I am saying it as I read the Pune tea leaves. And what is your insight into the owners' thinking?

Dingles need to worry if two of the bottom three start winning games. Especially if the victories come against them.

Mrs D says very little but she has made it clear she would invest in young players. An improbable £8m was produced for Jordan Rhodes to back up Shebby so it is only fair that Mowbray be backed with a big ticket signing. As far as anything in football can be a sure thing, picking up an established under-20 England international who has the attributes of Brereton at his age looks like as safe a bet as you can find in football for protecting £7m. Fans were debating Brereton or XYZ but I don't recall any noise coming out of the club to that effect.

Will be happy with a draw today- important not to lose against play-off contenders. The next three though will be all about collecting 9 points irrespective of new owners at Wigan. Do that and we will be in position to talk meaningfully about the January transfer window. Runs of wins do wonders in this tight league as our opponents today have shown.

Everybody is missing the wood for the trees. There is plenty of evidence from Pune that the owners would not have spent the £7m on Rovers in any other way. So people playing championship manager signing half a team with £7m instead of Brereton are missing the point- it was Brereton or nowt. Personally I am glad he is here and while nothing is certain in football there is a much better than 50% chance he will be worth £7m as a 22 year old. If he comes as good as some videos and opposition fans suggest, that goes to £20m+. If he loses it mentally under the £7m tag then his value drops. Let's look forwards to him blossoming here and hope he seizes his chances when they come. Remember MGP hardly got a single full game for almost a season after joining us.

Best wishes to Lieutweiler (guessed the spelling). Great to see him get a chance but in sad circumstances. Will be massive if he keeps a clean sheet. QPR will probably have the better players on the pitch given our injury problems but this is really a battle of two very good highly experienced technical managers. Which dug out out-psyches the other? QPR have risen on the back of winning, not drawing games but my best guess is this one will be 1-1. I reckon the probabilities are home win 20%, draw 50%, away win 30%. Very different if we had been at full strength but despite our new strength in depth this season, we are not likely to be anywhere near as strong as we could be. Unless of course Mowbray has tricked us all and we are in for a treat...

QPR and Brum W4 D1 L0 are the two form teams of the division...

Had time to think more about yesterday's game and the more I think about it the worse the referee's performance gets. There is no doubt the ref is the single factor separating Rovers from three points yesterday. Strange place the Hawthorns as I remember Chris Price getting upended for the most blatant of clear view penalties and it not given. Well there were two more yesterday afternoon. Yes to the non-footballing outsider the selection again looked a bit odd. This messageboard is totally unanimous on: - Mowbray works extremely hard and diligently prepares for every game carefully studying he opposition - Mowbray thinks a huge amount about the game - Mowbray has installed the best team spirit at Rovers since, I don't know- Dalglish? Perhaps he over thinks and when his picks/formations don't work we indulge in the one thing Blackburn folk are world class at- self-pitying moaning. But we have picked up wins where Mowbray thinking outside the box has resulted in selection surprises that have totally bamboozled opposition players and management. Certainly gone are the days of Plan A being totally obvious to all opposition managers who care to look at Rovers and there being no Plan B. Reed is a phenomenal revelation of a player and get Rothwell's composure right and Rodwell's fitness up to scratch and in the current squad we alteady have the core of a promotion winning team. Definitely two points dropped yesterday based on the first 75 minutes but what total heroics for 22 minutes after Raya's injury. Huge contrast with the 3-0 defeat under Kean last time we were at WBA- a match which watching from the stands looked very obviously fixed against us.

Brilliant battling point for Rovers in the circumstances. Ref off the scale woeful.

Yes shame about the emoji

I am in the "we would have gone up under Mowbray with that squad" mob. (Rovers hat emoji which seems to have disappeared)

Mowbray's post match comments left no room for doubt that it is a fixed and done deal for Ben to become a permanent Rover "at a big fee for us".

Hang on guys, of course I believe Chorley won. Just typical of the appalling drift in BBC standards that they failed to get any scores from the FA Cup until hours after final whistles and they got that one wrong. At least we are not waiting for the first round draw whenever it is made...